Isn't the Tux character actually owned by someone in the free software community? Wouldn't it be necessary to get in touch with the creator before going off and doing something commercial with it?
FAR is at least in the millions. Don't be an idiot, it was game of the year and it's still selling, plus it has had mods out the ass coming down the pipe which have been popular.
For some perspective, just licensing the Quake 3 engine costs $300,000 per title. Now, I know Half-Life was a Quake 2 engine title, but it should be realized that expenses this large are not abnormal for a game development team.
Here's a figure for you. Half-Life has sold over 1.5 Million copies worldwide, I believe a little closer to 2. Let's do some math, how do you get a $200k profit from 1.5 million sales?
Actually, at no point did I say that Intel was without blame. If you were to actually read the content of my post, you'd see how it points out that Intel tried to take advantage of an experimental technology and had problems. To do this, they signed a contract. Hooray! You missed the point! The post describes why they signed it in the first place. Which really doesn't make them morons.
Learn to read.
I personally hope that Intel survives this. There's an accurate post higher up in this discussion about how Intel was trying to get around the memory bandwidth problem with RAMBUS. Unfortunately, this didn't work out (The gamble didn't pay off, as Intel's CEO stated) and now Intel is much like somebody babysitting the neighbor's rabid dog. They can't just kill it because it's not theirs and the neighbor won't be back (for 2 years), and it's going arround the neighborhood mauling everybody's children. This is making everybody else in the industry hate the do.. err RAMBUS.
The whole "AMD RULeZ0rS INTEL SUx0rS LUNIX 4 EVER!" thing on slashdot is getting rather tiresome. I personally run an Intel pentium III 800 system which I'm extremely happy with (the CUSL2 implmentation of i815e rocks). I initially had an Abit KT7-RAID and an Athlon Thunderbird 800. I had a sound problem so frustrating (and PCI issues) that I had to return the board and ebay the processor.
What makes AMD the "l33t slashdawt hax0r" favorite? The reason that AMD hasn't been involved in any of the supposedly strongarm tactics intel has been using is that they have been concentrating on one thing: putting out faster processors that undercut intel's prices. If they manage to take Intel out of business while Intel's stuck with this RAMBUS bullshit, then what? You've got AMD ruling the roost, and they can do whatever they want. Next thing you know slashdot will swing over to "AMD SuX0rs!! CYRIX 4 EVER!!".
Also, it's not as though AMD has never made a mistake. Witness the whole Slot A / Socket A debacle. "Here's a new packaging system for our future processors! Oops wait, we're gonna go with a socket package instead, sorry there's no upgrade path, why don't you spend some more money?". And as the earlier comment I mentioned stated, all AMD is doing is being quiet and waiting for the next big memory techonology to sort itself out - it's not taking enormously risky and expensive chances to try and destroy the bandwidth barrier that Intel has with RAMBUS.
I'd like to know how they intend to deal with the phenomenon of the internet, whether they plan to try to work it into current laws of taxation and representation and privacy or if it can exist as a seperate, independent animal.
I don't think anybody's asked that straight up:)
That this may have been done just so the companies involved in the big lawsuits right now (which certainly have relations to those running contentville) can point to it when angry users shut it down and then say "why don't we have those rights?"
Food for paranoid thought, heh.
Fairtunes strikes me as being a reasonably good step in the right direction. The thing that people aren't realising here is that it needs a lot of donations to work out right, and it's not getting those donations from people are take one look at the site and say "That's not enough to afford XXXX thing for them crazy artists!" or "bwahaha with so little money there's no way to get the puny tip to the artist reasonably!". Well, gee. If you actually made a donation, not only would it help overcome these two factors, but it would entice more people to donate. Unfortunately, this sort of phenomenon plagues anything like this and will probably murder fairtunes before it gets off the ground.
I praise Courtney Love for the opinion she wrote. It indicates that she has a good grasp of where things should be going and why what's happening now is wrong. I can't wait for the day when all it takes is the artist, a credit card commerce outfit, and a web pimp for bands to exist. At that point, costs will be ultra-low for everybody. I'd love to slap $1-5 for an mp3'd album (or whatever compression system is big in 2020 when this actually happens =P ).
I agree, I can't say I've heard very much Hole but I respect her for the way she stated herself in that article. Also, I don't really like Nirvana (ok fine I dislike Nirvana) but it's pretty low to make suicide jokes.
Actually, while I'm not sure about Harriers being able to go into Stealh mode, they can zip around like helicopters - they have VTOL engines (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) which allow them to take off without a runway and hover.
According to the dmesg output on that page, the chip is running at 200Mhz. So there. If that parallel port ethernet adapter works correctly, I'd be interested in one of those things as a quake box.
You seem to have nothing to do but bitch about the hype and call Lucas a sellout. Why can't you just accept that fact that people are having FUN? People are going out and buying star wars toys and getting them with their mugs and being excited and having FUN! There's nothing wrong with that. Even if the movie isn't that great, people have had fun anticipating it.
Also, what's with the opinion trends towards The Phantom Menace? Suddenly, everybody decided it was cool to say "It's all hype!". You've lost something valuable if you've lost the excitement present in antipating it.
It may be "just a movie", but that doesn't mean you have to slam people who think it is more.
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Isn't the Tux character actually owned by someone in the free software community? Wouldn't it be necessary to get in touch with the creator before going off and doing something commercial with it?
FAR is at least in the millions. Don't be an idiot, it was game of the year and it's still selling, plus it has had mods out the ass coming down the pipe which have been popular.
For some perspective, just licensing the Quake 3 engine costs $300,000 per title. Now, I know Half-Life was a Quake 2 engine title, but it should be realized that expenses this large are not abnormal for a game development team.
Here's a figure for you. Half-Life has sold over 1.5 Million copies worldwide, I believe a little closer to 2. Let's do some math, how do you get a $200k profit from 1.5 million sales?
That makes sense.. FOR ME TO POOP ON
Actually, at no point did I say that Intel was without blame. If you were to actually read the content of my post, you'd see how it points out that Intel tried to take advantage of an experimental technology and had problems. To do this, they signed a contract. Hooray! You missed the point! The post describes why they signed it in the first place. Which really doesn't make them morons. Learn to read.
I personally hope that Intel survives this. There's an accurate post higher up in this discussion about how Intel was trying to get around the memory bandwidth problem with RAMBUS. Unfortunately, this didn't work out (The gamble didn't pay off, as Intel's CEO stated) and now Intel is much like somebody babysitting the neighbor's rabid dog. They can't just kill it because it's not theirs and the neighbor won't be back (for 2 years), and it's going arround the neighborhood mauling everybody's children. This is making everybody else in the industry hate the do.. err RAMBUS.
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The whole "AMD RULeZ0rS INTEL SUx0rS LUNIX 4 EVER!" thing on slashdot is getting rather tiresome. I personally run an Intel pentium III 800 system which I'm extremely happy with (the CUSL2 implmentation of i815e rocks). I initially had an Abit KT7-RAID and an Athlon Thunderbird 800. I had a sound problem so frustrating (and PCI issues) that I had to return the board and ebay the processor.
What makes AMD the "l33t slashdawt hax0r" favorite? The reason that AMD hasn't been involved in any of the supposedly strongarm tactics intel has been using is that they have been concentrating on one thing: putting out faster processors that undercut intel's prices. If they manage to take Intel out of business while Intel's stuck with this RAMBUS bullshit, then what? You've got AMD ruling the roost, and they can do whatever they want. Next thing you know slashdot will swing over to "AMD SuX0rs!! CYRIX 4 EVER!!".
Also, it's not as though AMD has never made a mistake. Witness the whole Slot A / Socket A debacle. "Here's a new packaging system for our future processors! Oops wait, we're gonna go with a socket package instead, sorry there's no upgrade path, why don't you spend some more money?". And as the earlier comment I mentioned stated, all AMD is doing is being quiet and waiting for the next big memory techonology to sort itself out - it's not taking enormously risky and expensive chances to try and destroy the bandwidth barrier that Intel has with RAMBUS.
Basically.. Go Intel
I'd like to know how they intend to deal with the phenomenon of the internet, whether they plan to try to work it into current laws of taxation and representation and privacy or if it can exist as a seperate, independent animal. I don't think anybody's asked that straight up :)
That would be "it's", so why don't you leave him alone?
That this may have been done just so the companies involved in the big lawsuits right now (which certainly have relations to those running contentville) can point to it when angry users shut it down and then say "why don't we have those rights?" Food for paranoid thought, heh.
Fairtunes strikes me as being a reasonably good step in the right direction. The thing that people aren't realising here is that it needs a lot of donations to work out right, and it's not getting those donations from people are take one look at the site and say "That's not enough to afford XXXX thing for them crazy artists!" or "bwahaha with so little money there's no way to get the puny tip to the artist reasonably!". Well, gee. If you actually made a donation, not only would it help overcome these two factors, but it would entice more people to donate. Unfortunately, this sort of phenomenon plagues anything like this and will probably murder fairtunes before it gets off the ground.
I praise Courtney Love for the opinion she wrote. It indicates that she has a good grasp of where things should be going and why what's happening now is wrong. I can't wait for the day when all it takes is the artist, a credit card commerce outfit, and a web pimp for bands to exist. At that point, costs will be ultra-low for everybody. I'd love to slap $1-5 for an mp3'd album (or whatever compression system is big in 2020 when this actually happens =P ).
I agree, I can't say I've heard very much Hole but I respect her for the way she stated herself in that article. Also, I don't really like Nirvana (ok fine I dislike Nirvana) but it's pretty low to make suicide jokes.
Actually, while I'm not sure about Harriers being able to go into Stealh mode, they can zip around like helicopters - they have VTOL engines (Vertical Take-Off and Landing) which allow them to take off without a runway and hover.
You can buy Albums on MD. Just go to Best Buy, they have an album MD section.
According to the dmesg output on that page, the chip is running at 200Mhz. So there. If that parallel port ethernet adapter works correctly, I'd be interested in one of those things as a quake box.
Isn't this getting a little extreme? It's getting hard for anybody to get anything done without getting sued.
I'd say that it's Mirabilis' turf, not ICQ. The size of the user bases of ICQ and IM may be comparable, but ICQ was there first.
I don't understand you people.
You seem to have nothing to do but bitch about the hype and call Lucas a sellout. Why can't you just accept that fact that people are having FUN? People are going out and buying star wars toys and getting them with their mugs and being excited and having FUN! There's nothing wrong with that. Even if the movie isn't that great, people have had fun anticipating it.
Also, what's with the opinion trends towards The Phantom Menace? Suddenly, everybody decided it was cool to say "It's all hype!". You've lost something valuable if you've lost the excitement present in antipating it.
It may be "just a movie", but that doesn't mean you have to slam people who think it is more.
-dh
Insane.